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Horatio Luskfish

Son of Julio, Arch-Son of Hermes the Obtuse, Tribbit of Thithithmihos on the edge of The Dank, traveled along a dark and sinister path to emerge as one of Battal's most beloved heroes.

Though he appears in later works as a peripheral character, the main story of Horatio is chronicled in Tycho Brahe's Elementsor Cycle Book 1: The Fires of Mount Windice. The first book in Brahe's Epic Saga describes Horatio's humble beginnings as a Mucksucker of the Luskfish Clan and follows the unwitting protaganist through his corruption by the Pixlie Bibee. Bibee ultimately warps the mind of the poor Tribbit so severely that she convices him to climb the icy burning slopes of Mount Windice to plunder the Mosaic Platter of Ronard!

After Horatio's adventures in Book 1, he then appears again at the beginning of Book 2, but after the terrible experiences of his last adventure, he is unwilling to get involved in the events transpiring around him. Despite the unwillingness to get involved, it is his brief encounter with two war refugees, father and daughter Heeroh Troughberry and Orphenna Troughberry, that sparks Orphenna to undertake the quest that drives the journey of that book.

Of some note is that an alternate telling of Horatio's adventures can be found in The Story That Is Built One Sentence At a Time By Those That Read It as collected in The Temptations of the Bix the End Table, and other tales.